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"Unfortunately, we ran into an issue with this process as the clear CMOS process sometimes required the removal of the battery for the jumper process to work. This process is not acceptable, considering how well other BIOS recovery systems work."

Sounds a lot like the reviewer is too lazy to use his finger to release the battery from its holder. Reply

quote:Sounds a lot like the reviewer is too lazy to use his finger to release the battery from its holder.

Certainly not lazy as I removed the battery at least a dozen times during testing. The fact remains that having to remove the battery is not an acceptable option when the clear CMOS jumper does not work over 60% of the time because the bios self recovery routine fails 85% of the time when the memory settings are extended past the board's ability to boot properly. This only occurred a couple of times when setting the FSB past the board's limit. Reply

I hate removing the battery. I broke the flimsy battery clip off of one motherboard doing this, and had to solder new wires in place and dangle a new battery from it. Removing the battery for a BIOS clear is not good. Reply

No, upon release the board will come with alternate CPU sockets included in the box. You got an AMD? Just pop out the Intel socket and plug in the AMD socket. Gat a VIA, Cyrix, or TI85 chip? Just break the chosen socket out of the plastic holders like a model car part.

Oh, wait, I guess you want to know if ECS is going to make an AMD board. Duh. Reply

Our next article will have a high resolution picture of the capacitors and other items of importance in a pop-up window. I am sure the capacitors utilized on this board will be of interest to you. ;-> Reply

Well, you could just tell us. Previously ECS used a lot of OST caps but these may be Panasonic FM? (at least some, the 10mm x 25(?)mm look like it in the VRM. More significant might be the lack of capacitors for memory, could be part of why the board is a bit fickle about o'c. Reply